Friday, February 27, 2009

Some views on General Election 2009 (2)

1. I hope can have more than 10 candidates from alternative parties are voted into Parliament

2. The government has long since neglected its role of building a nation. It now only knows to cling on to power and put economic growth above all considerations. Not that it is managing the country or economy well. The longer it stays in complete power, the greater the damage to our country and nation. Like global warming, we may already be reaching a point of no return.

3. Mr Tan should step forward, form a new party and lead a team in the GRC. I am sure many Singaporeans will lend you their support.

4. The change will come when the old man gamble away all our reserves, or the old man die!

5. Singaporeans have a spirit of greatness that have built our country into world class. Tap on this to continue to build. Success is possible. Talent is in us, tap it. The only loss is to think and act we can't.

6. I wish for a truly free & dynamic press instead of the compliant ST/Today and MediaCorp that we have now. Singapore's downhill has been greatly contributed by these people.

7. Many of your questions are crafted in such a way as to discredit the Government.

8. If there are credible opposition candidates ie quality of those PAP introduces I would consider them. However the sad thing is that the candidates from opposition did not meet such expectation. So until that day whereby the opposition becomes more credible and able to offer more constructive ideas I would still go with PAP.

5 comments:

Tan Kin Lian said...
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Tan Kin Lian said...

Reply to #7. I try my best to be objective and fair. You are the only person who complained that the questions are biased. Anyway, I have created a new survey, which I hope will appear to be more neutral.

AB said...

Comment #8. If you vote pap just because there is no credible alternative then you are falling into the trap set by pap.

I think people who now talk about credible alternative government is just living in dreamland. It is simply just not possible for this to happen in SG overnight.

If you truly wish to see a credible alternative develop, then you should start supporting and voting them NOW.

Pls realise that without ground support now the current disadvantaged alternative will not be able to strengthen and likely to become weaker and possibly even become extinct.

JamesP said...

Chicken and egg issue....

No strong opposition - No strong candidate

If you want strong candidate, opposition must be strongER to attract stronger candidate.

We saw a good number of opposition candidate surfacing in WP the last election. The may not be the best, but at least they are willing to stand up for the people... and THAT I think is credible. Not just paper qualifications and head knowledge.

zhummmeng said...

To get opposition in don't demand that the opposition must satisfy some academic criteria. What we need is men with a heart, integrity and commitment and courageous and NOT men with titles.
The question is , do you want to have opposition members in parliament to represent you. Do you want honest and committed members or you want people with PhDs.THIS IS THE ISSUE NOW.
Do you remember how PAP started? They had members with little education but committed. They even had a 'chee Cheohg Fun seller", a strong activist woman MP.
Remember you must have candidates who are from the ground and who can relate to man in the street issues and not high and mighty ones.You don't need smart alecs and if you can form a government you can have the neutral civil service to provide all the talents you need.
First get the man in or a pig in and later reform and replace with smart alec members.

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